Doron Goldbarsht

PhD Candidate

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Brief overview

Doron is a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Law at UNSW. Doron holds undergraduate degrees in Law from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His Thesis for his LL.M entitled "Democracies and Combating the Financing of Terrorism via Charitable Organizations" was supervised by Professor Yuval Shany. Doron has previously worked as a research assistant with the Israel Democracy Institute, a think-and-do tank which explores issues of national security and democracy. Currently working for Agmon & Co, he has also practiced as a lawyer of the Israeli Bar in the areas of administrative law, litigation, dispute resolution and real estate law.

Doron began his legal career as an intern under the supervision of Shai Nitzan adv., Deputy State Attorney (presently Israel’s General Attorney), in the Department for Special Affairs.

In March 2015, Doron received the Sir Anthony Mason PhD Award in Public Law.

Doron was the recipient of an "Erasmus Mundus", granted by the European Commission, and studied at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium for a time.

Areas of expertise

Administrative law, Constitutional law, Public International law and Legal responses to terrorism.

Research topic

Counter Terrorist Financing - A Study In Effectiveness and The Rule Of Law In Global Administrative Law.

Research synopsis

The objective of this thesis is to try and discover how the development of Global Administrative Law in relation to the Counter Terrorist Financing regime might influence for the better the effectiveness of the regime, or suffer to a significant extent from procedural and substantive lapses in relation to the rule of law, such as difficulties with transparency, participation, reasoned decision, legality, and effective review, with either the adoption of decision-making procedures to promote the rule of law within the CTF Regime (Ex Ante), or through application of domestic administrative law on legislation of the CTF Regime by preserving a domestic courts discretion to refuse to recognize the decisions or norms developed and reached through its decision-making processes (Ex Post).